Tyngsboro? Great, Scott!

Quick pop quiz:  What are you more likely to see in Tyngsboro?

A) A Black Bear

B) Scott Spence Running

Before today, you could have answered B and won the grand prize, since we already saw the bear a few weeks back.  But today, by popular demand, and with special guest runner on loan from Lehigh Valley, Tom Beaupre, Scott actually braved the wilds of Tyngsboro for today's E Streeter's group run!

Here's the happy crew before we set out.  We were all smiles with promises of egg sandwiches awaiting us at Carlos' house at run's end

It took some convincing, and some violence, but finally we were able to drag Scott out onto the Tyngsboro Bridge

The value of running with a camera:  you get to document such momentous occasions.  Notice Scott protected by the phalanx of runners forming the protective coccoon around him

It was returning to the scene of our encounter with Grizzly Adams' buddy, out behind Notre Dame Academy.  Andrew, the ladies' man, accepts his fate

Tom and Barry talk smack.  Actually, Tom didn't realize he was committing to another lap around the campus when he held up this sign, that's why he still looks happy.

For anyone who knew us back in our high school days at St. Joseph's Regional High School, you probably remember that we weren't always the favorites of the nuns who ran the school.  In fact, you might say we were the bane of their existence for our four years there.  Which makes this photo of us in the nun's graveyard seem all the more fitting, since the nuns were ready to kill us on so many occasions.

How the times have changed.  Once a principal's thorn, Tom is now angling for his own shot at a principal's chair in Pennsylvania.  Here is is buffing up his reserved parking space plaque.

Worried as we were about Scott's welfare running in Tyngsboro, we took turns doing the buddy system.  Here, Tom drew the short straw for the final mile escort.

Back at Carlos' house, as the egg sandwiches warm in the oven inside, it's the trail running tick check ritual.  No passengers this time around.

Great to have Tom back in the mix.  He was supposed to be staying even longer, but we kept dragging him out for early morning runs, so he cut his trip short.  Next time, he won't tell us when he's back in town!

And big round of applause for Scott for conquering his fear of Tyngsboro.  We knew you could do it, Scott!